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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B.C. Forbes

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B.C. Forbes

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. — B.C. Forbes

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. — B.C. Forbes

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure. — B.C. Forbes

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. — B.C. Forbes

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you. — B.C. Forbes

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B.C. Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. — B.C. Forbes

Kill time and you will kill your career. — B.C. Forbes

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbes

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. — B.C. Forbes

To make headway, improve your head. — B.C. Forbes

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. — B.C. Forbes

Plan your work - work your plan — B.C. Forbes

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older. — B.C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B.C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life. — B.C. Forbes

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. — B.C. Forbes

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin. — B.C. Forbes

Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. — B.C. Forbes

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. — B.C. Forbes

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving. — B.C. Forbes

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. — B.C. Forbes

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. — B.C. Forbes

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. — B.C. Forbes

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. — B.C. Forbes

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B.C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. — B.C. Forbes

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend. — B.C. Forbes

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B.C. Forbes

The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure. — B.C. Forbes

Jealousy ... is a mental cancer. — B.C. Forbes

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. — B.C. Forbes

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. — B.C. Forbes

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. — B.C. Forbes

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you. — B.C. Forbes

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming. — B.C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B.C. Forbes

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. — B.C. Forbes

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be. — B.C. Forbes

Use life to provide something that outlasts it. — B.C. Forbes

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. — B.C. Forbes

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. — B.C. Forbes

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for? — B.C. Forbes

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B.C. Forbes

It's so much easier to do good than to be good. — B.C. Forbes

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. — B.C. Forbes

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B.C. Forbes

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. — B.C. Forbes

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. — B.C. Forbes

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. — B.C. Forbes

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you. — B.C. Forbes

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism ... Resist growing up! — B.C. Forbes

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder. — B.C. Forbes

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B.C. Forbes

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. — B.C. Forbes

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook — B.C. Forbes

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. — B.C. Forbes

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B.C. Forbes

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. — B.C. Forbes

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. — B.C. Forbes

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are. — B.C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. — B.C. Forbes

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead. — B.C. Forbes

Time mends all, ends all things earthly. — B.C. Forbes

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow. — B.C. Forbes

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses. — B.C. Forbes

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. — B.C. Forbes

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. — B.C. Forbes

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. — B.C. Forbes

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. — B.C. Forbes

Bragging often precedes begging. — B.C. Forbes